for all firms from which city purchases are made. Revocation of contracts with firms that do not have a full scale fair employment practice. Creation of a citizens review board for grievances against police brutality and false arrests or stops and seizures. Ordinance giving ready access to the names of owners and investors for all slum properties. A saturation program of increased garbage collection, street cleaning, and building inspection services in the slum properties. Political parties The requirement that precinct captains be residents of their precincts. Chicago Housing Authority and the Chicago Dwelling Association Program to rehabilitate present public housing including such items as locked lobbies, restrooms in recreation areas, increased police protection and child care centers on every third floor. Program to increase vastly the supply of low-cost housing on a scattered basis for both low- and middle-income families. Business Basic headcounts, including white, Negro and Latin American, by job classification and income level, made public. Racial steps to upgrade and to integrate all departments, all levels of employments. 1968 Fair Housing Act The 1968 Fair Housing Act was passed by Congress as a direct result of both the 1966 Chicago open housing movement and as a response to the assassination of King. Popular culture The dark mystery that detective V. I. Warshawski unveils in the 2009 novel Hardball by Sara Paretsky is directly related to the Chicago Freedom Movement (and to racist violence against that movement). In the preface Paretsky recounts that she was at the time a student in the University of Chicago and that her deep support for the movement had a key role in her decision to stay permanently in Chicago and not go back to her native Kansas. See also White House Conference on Civil Rights References Further reading External links Chicago Freedom Movement 1965 in Illinois 1965 in American law 1966 in Illinois 1967 in Illinois Civil rights movement African-American history in Chicago History of African-American civil rights History of Chicago History of civil rights in the United States Housing rights activism Martin Luther King Jr. Civil rights protests in the United States 1965 protests 1966 protests 1967 protests Housing in Illinois Housing protests